Alejandro Jodorowsky Quotes

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something.

All I know is that I've made some big screw-ups, and I've done some things that have done all right. I just keep trying to learn from the mistakes I've made.

I love mistakes because it's the only way you learn.

I have looked back on situations and thought that I could have handled a few differently and probably better.

Find a place that you are comfortable with. Don't be afraid to make mistakes. Make a lot of mistakes.

You don't learn from a situation where you do something well. You enjoy it and you give yourself credit, but you don't really learn from that. You learn from trial and error, trial and error, all the time.

I've been doing a lot of learning from mistakes, first and foremost, and building off that.

Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not.

You have to be OK with your own fears. If you're an honest person, you'll make mistakes, but that's when the most interesting things happen.

If you play it safe every time, then you're missing the best part of acting. You haven't learned anything about your humanity.

Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment.

Where I Was Wrong

What I'm proud of, we learned from our lessons.

I bet you that we all learn from our mistakes. I've learned from my mistakes in the past, too.

The more I learn about things, I realise how wrong I was before.

I think I have a lot of learning to do, but that's what the game is for.

I've made mistakes, and I'm very aware of them, and I've tried to better myself from those mistakes.

There is always a new experience on every set, a new mistake you make. It is a learning experience.

I think you learn a lot from losses.

It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

For a while, I was saying 'no' way too often. I turned down 'An Officer and A Gentleman,' 'Splash' and 'Midnight Express.' I could name you tons more. I would go off and experience life instead of working - I was learning to fly jets, went on an African safari, sailed the Caribbean - which wasn't necessarily bad.

I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep trying new things.